The New American Immigrants

http://goo.gl/2C7w7R

1. Which was NOT a reason why native-born Americans encouraged Americanization? * Select the best answer

• A. Native-born Americans wanted to assimilate people from other cultures into the dominant culture
• B. Native-born Americans wanted the immigrants to practice their customs
• C. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants skills needed for citizenship
• D. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants cooking skills

2. What were cities most like for the new immigrants coming to America? * Select the best answer

• A. Clean and welcoming
• B. Healthy, with clean water
• C. Immigrants would most likely have had to dodge horse manure
• D. Plenty of single-family homes

3. What would best describe the cities to a new immigrant? * Select the best answer

• A. Pickpockets and thieves were plenty
• B. Plenty of police harassing new immigrants
• C. All the clean water was dedicated to fighting fires
• D. Running water and plumbing worked 60% of the time

4. Why did immigrants move to the cities in the first place? * Select the best answer

• A. Plenty of work in the factories
• B. Cheap housing
• C. Plenty of room in tenements
• D. A & B only

5. People moved from the farms to the cities because? * Select the best answer

• A. Less segregation and discrimination in the cities
• B. Farming technology improved
• C. Wood plows were being made in the cities
• D. None of the above

Hopelessly Bound to the Stake

What are three pieces of information you chose?why did you choose the three?



Were labor minors necessary?why?



did the government help make monopolies?how?


How did money in politics contribute to this cartoon?how has this changed?

Rise of Industry & Monopolies

Because of Electricity

A new invention
It was safer and less expensive
 created more buisnesses

My haiku and images show the importance of electricity because it shows how much electricity has improved during the years.Also how electricity created more jobs for people ,and how thomas edison created a power plant to maintain all the electricity and wont go out of hand.It is a importance to the people and buisnesses because it created new jobs like the printing press.

Major Events before the Civil War

1.Around 1858,the United States was divided geographically north and south with the South full of slavery and the North was more industrilized.

2.The country was so divided by the issue of slavery,california needed the compromise of 1850 to make california a state by voting or popular sovereighty.

3.Around this time,many southern states were considering to leave the Union.
4.Many people from the North hated slavery
5.When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published the north and south critized the book
6.Two polititicians became famous for their slavery debates becuse they were both against slavery but had different ways of dealing with the issue.
7.On December 20,1860 the first state to secede was South Carolina.

Diary Entry #7

December 4,1819

Dear Diary,
I am here like a in my death bed looking like a zombie  I can hardly move or walk.Remembering all those adventures & all the things I have seen like the world and the government changing.Its been 100 years since ive been alive and now its my time to go.My life its been worth living because of seeing Christopher Columbus and seeing the government forming little by little and I am blessed I have seen everything changing and meeting historic people that have now changed our life now. I imagine 200 years from now with a new and improved government and with much high technology also improving more better day by day.The land will start looking like cities and more factories.well now its my time to go I have enjoyed every moment in my life now its my time to go Good Bye!!

Post Election Analysis

My partner: Dazhae

Marijuana Legalization in Colorado and Washington

Cite examples of "Supreme Law of the Land"

"Marijuana is still illegal in the eyes of the federal government, which overrules states' rights."

Cite examples of "federal vs. state authority"

"Federal law over rule states law so that state can have seperate laws"

What was the "compromise" that helped to pass the referendum in Washington? How do you think this compromise would affect demand for the product?

    The compromise that helped to pass the referendum in Washington was a supreme court battle with the federal government.

Why was Oregon's referendum not passed?

    

Analist projected that it would nt go through and people critized various aspects of it.

Obama Victory Tweets

Are there groups of people who use SM more? If yes,who do you think they are,and how do you know?

      Yes, there are groups of people that use social media more like the government and the president because they can keep you uptaded whats happening in our country.

Which candidate was most effective using social media?
       Barack Obama was the one using the social media by making speaches on tv about whats going on in the government he also tweets on twitter and keeps people updated

According to Jeffrey Hermes, taking a picture of your marked ballot can be used to pressure people standing in line to vote. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
          No, because it show that I am proud for who I voted and just seeing a picture wouldnt infuence me in just changing my decision.By the time people posted pictures people have decided who they were voting and would change their mind.

Immigration/Industrilization Key Terms

Progressive Era/Movement-People became active to make a better government
Muckraker-A person  alleged scandal about politics
Social Gospel-A protestant Christian in the 20th century that focused on issues of social justice
Social Darwinism-A law that works to prevent mislabeled meat products from being sold as food.
Americanization-An immigrant to the United States becoming a person who shares american values and beliefs
Nativist-favoring the interest of established inhabitants over those of immigrants
Political Machine-An organization that manages to support people and campaign workers.
Andrew Carnegie-Scottish-American indusrialist who led the enormous expansion of the Americian steel industryin the late 19th century.He waws also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.
Horizontal/vertical intergration-the management control in buisnesses
Urban-A  characerized high population density and vast human features in camparison to areas surrounded cities.
Upton Sinclair-An american author and one time canidate governor of californa
Meat Inspetion Act-A law that prevents mislabeled meat products from being sold as food.
Trust/Monopoly-An exclusive control on supply and a trade in service
Graft-A political corruption that can be defined as an unscruploususe of a polition authority of personal gain.
Hull Houses-A settlement house in the United States
Jane Adams-A pioneer settlement worker and a leader in woman sufferage and world peace.
Immigration Act of 1965-eliminated the quotas that restricted immigreation and focused on the families of immigrants.There are many restrictions on visas to 170,000 per year and per country.